Tommy Collison

So, I -Trust Tommy- has been self hosted about a week now, it’s been great and definitely one decision I haven’t looked back on.

There’s a visible sense of professionalism when you give out the address as .com rather than .blogspot. Having a domain separates the serious bloggers from those jumping on the blogging bandwagon.* People take you more seriously as you hand them the torn piece of paper with the URL scribbled on it. It’s also easier to remember and type.

WordPress isn’t half the piece of dog dropping I expected it to be. It’s awfully clean (more than Blogspot could ever be or was) and everything is generally very nice. Tommy is a happy boy.

John’s prophesy that in tinkering with the server, he may send TT crushing to the ground hasn’t -so far- happened, I don’t think. I haven’t seen any downtime, have you? (and, with it as my homepage, I’d see it every time either Safari or Firefox booted up) but still, everyone, on my count, turn clockwise, spit, throw salt over your left shoulder and rotate 360 degrees, just to combat the jinx I just put on the site.

The iTheme (which John says is too “Apple-y”) has met the great WordPress beast head on and is rising to the challenge admirably, and I’m very pleased with it.

Kudos to blogger though, they kept me safe, never lost any posts and even shipped all posts across to WP contentedly. Thanks!

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*That _isn’t_ to say those who aren’t self hosted are any less quality bloggers. I know tons of people still on WP or BlogSpot who are better bloggers than I am, or could ever aspire to be